Legal Aid Agency: Cybersecurity
Commons · Question 8849 · Tabled 10 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 19 Jun 2026
Question
Asked by Iqbal Mohamed
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what categories of personal data were accessed or exfiltrated during the April 2025 Legal Aid cyber security breach; and was data relating to domestic abuse survivors, asylum seekers or criminal defendants affect
Answer
Answered by Sarah Sackman, 19 Jun 2026
We take the security of people’s personal data extremely seriously.We are working hard to identify those whose data may have been stolen by the criminal attackers. Given the scale of the services the LAA delivers, the timespan of the data involved, and th...